The Stop’s Night Market 2017 in Support of The Stop Community Food Centre Toronto

For the past six years, Torontonians have had the chance to enjoy food samples from the best purveyors in the city, and at the same time, give back to help those in need. The Stop’s Night Market is the much anticipated annual fundraiser for The Stop Community Food Centre. It took place over two evenings in a vacant lot on Sterling Road in the Junction Triangle area of Toronto. The Stop is one of Canada’s first food banks, and it has become an important part of the west end Toronto community. Each ticket sold for the Night Market provides 20 drop-in-meals or fresh food hampers that can feed four families. This year’s fundraiser raised over $300,000 to help with The Stop‘s drop-in-meals, healthy food bank, community cooking and gardening programs, local food markets, education for children, community advocacy, and the greenhouse and compost demonstration centre.
The core view is that food is a fundamental human right and that access to healthy food is crucial for everyone.
Each night of the two-day market had different restaurants presenting their creations, with a total of 70 chefs, 20 beverage providers and 35 unique food carts created by local designers.
We attended the second night, and we sampled as much as we could.

We then had to make room for dessert. There were Mad Maple‘s red fife churros with maple cinnamon sugar and strawberry rhubarb sauce, Lindsay Bakes‘ cookies and The Drake Commissary‘s Sicilian ice cream sandwich on a brioche.